On a wing and hope: Delhi gangrape survivor flown to Singapore for treatment

Also see The dark, other side of Delhi rape: Lawbreakers as elected lawmakers Protests no longer about rape, they’re about misgovernance A ray of sunshine at a Delhi gangrape protest Perhaps for a moment we can set aside the conspiracy theories and just wish this young woman all the luck in this world as she travels to Singapore to a super speciality hospital on a foggy night in Delhi. On the television, the anchors reassure us that we have the best doctors but we don’t have the best equipment. It’s tragic that a country of a billion people does not have a super speciality hospital and must send this critically injured young woman to Singapore. But then this entire story has been a story of our failings laid bare to us. We learned that very few hospitals in Delhi can provide an ambulance with a ventilator. This young woman has become an unlikely VVIP not because the govern...